{"id":5987,"date":"2014-03-26T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2014-03-26T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T15:50:55","slug":"volkswagen-launches-most-efficient-transporter-van-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5987","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen launches most efficient Transporter van &#8211; ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5989\" alt=\"Volkswagen Transporter BlueMotion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vw-transporter-bluemotion-3-sm.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vw-transporter-bluemotion-3-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vw-transporter-bluemotion-3-sm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Volkswagen has launched the most fuel efficient and low-emission variant of its Transporter panel van, ever.<\/p>\n<p>The Transporter BlueMotion boasts class-leading\u00a0combined fuel economy of 48.7 mpg and emissions of only 153 g\/km &#8212; an improvement of 3.9 mpg and 13 g\/km on the previous model Transporter BlueMotion.<\/p>\n<p>These gains have been generated by modifications to the engine management system and gearbox, as well as the use of low rolling resistance tyres, a start-stop system, a battery regeneration system and cruise control.<\/p>\n<p>The Transporter BlueMotion is powered by the popular 114 PS 2.0 TDI diesel engine, and could, in theory, be driven for 850 miles on a single tank of fuel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5990\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5990\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5990\" alt=\"New Volkswagen Transporter BlueMotion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vw-transporter-bluemotion-2-sm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vw-transporter-bluemotion-2-sm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vw-transporter-bluemotion-2-sm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Volkswagen Transporter BlueMotion achieves combined cycle fuel consumption of 48.7mpg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new Transporter BlueMotion is now available to order from UK VW dealers, with prices starting at \u00a319,245 +VAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Volkswagen Transporter BlueMotion has fuel consumption of up to 48.7mpg and CO2 emissions as low as 153 g\/km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1607,1016,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5993,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}